The Author's Corner: Pages

It comes down to being yourself and living you own life. To lead and break you own path is something that society does not what you to do. The reason is because someone who is living their own life the way they want is a threat to the control that society wants over you.

There comes a time when making the decisions to lead your life has to happen. It may come when you are at the worse part of your life or even when the choice of which path is shown to you. For those who have had a brush with loosing their lives is when the real change happens.

As life in this physical world is short, the life after death is unknown as no one has come back to say. Having said that, society wants full control over each and everyone of us in this life we are in. In time we all experience a moment when we see the light and society writes us off.

We all will break free from society in one way or another. It comes to when we choose to stop listening to what others in our life think we should do for ourselves. This path is hard because you will lose people who you thought were friends and some members of the family unit as well. The reason is because you are taking responsibility for your life and making your own decisions.

When society writes you off you are said to have a mental illness and then you are drugged into a dazed state for the rest of your life. It is something that happens because if you are deemed with mental illness it is hard to find work because of the illness and you them become dependent on social programs that barely cover you expenses if you live in a country that has those programs.

I have faced societies rules and I know how I have been treated by people and medical professionals. I am treated like I have no rights or I am unable to be productive in their eyes, one of the reasons why I have picked up the pen. As the years have moved on since my diagnosis in January of 2005, I have seen how the people in the town I live in treat me. I watch as when someone see me walking down the street, they will cross the street so they do not walk by me as if I am to be feared because of my illness. The reason for this fear is because of the stigma that surrounds mental illness.

In the pages of life there is always going to be the struggle you will encounter with society. Days will pass you by as your follow societies rules and when you are in your final days you may wish that you would have picked up the pen to your own life to take control of your path. To what is life, live it your way and ignore what society says.

Stay safe.